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...arena of top 40 radio. You'd scarcely realize from the jubilant disco drums and the syncopated keyboard touches that the song was actually about wretched abjection, the ways we degrade ourselves for love. Lead singer Nina Persson might have sounded impossibly glamorous, but she was still "cry[ing], pray[ing] and beg[ging]" as a pathetic, deflated masochist. Far from the weightless retro nugget it resembled, "Lovefool" used its radiant hooks to the most perverse of aims, like a tootsie roll pop with an acid core. Not bad for a band too often pigeonholed as mild candy...
...STEP 6 Pray that with just a little more than a week to go until Election Day, the blunder isn't fatal...
What to do Hoard food, water and bullets Pray...
...faces quickening competition from such all-purpose discount stores as Wal-Mart and Target. Its bloated inventory system costs hundreds of millions of dollars each year. It must somehow cut costs while remodeling stores and bolstering employee training and service. And Toys "R" Us managers can only pray, as they do each fall but even more so this year, that among the new toys they have bought by the trainload are a few hits--the Tickle Me Elmos and Power Rangers--that will fill parking lots with minivans...
...floor up, a woman crouches, shaking, at a window. Her husband entered the hospital for what she thought would be a "1-2-3" heart-valve operation. There were "complications," and he is back in the operating room. Baker fetches tissues and asks if they can pray. She says yes. He crouches by her in the dark hallway. He prays for God's presence and for the surgeon's hand...